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Adam Lambert on how watching ‘Will & Grace’ with mom and dad made coming out easier
Adam Lambert would watch Will & Grace with his parents and had not yet told them that he was gay.
But he made note of their reactions to the comedy about two gay men and their two straight, female best friends.
‘Will & Grace lightened the whole topic up,’ Lambert says in a video posted today for the It Gets Better Project.
‘I think being around the TV with my parents on the couch and us all laughing at the same jokes allowed me to kind of feel comfortable with them and made me realize, “This is probably going to be okay with them.”‘
He finally did come out to them right after he finished high school.
‘That was the year my mother outed me. Apparently I did not have the balls myself. My mom had to do it for me. (laughs).’
She simply asked the question on the car ride home after his brother had appeared in a speech and debate event that had made her emotional.
After answering that he is gay, Lambert says ‘it was as if a ton of bricks had been lifted off my shoulders’ and their already good relationship instantly rose to a new level.
‘We just started laughing about things. I was telling stories, she was telling stories.’
A few hours later he told his dad who said, ‘Yeah, yeah. We know.’
Lambert’s video is part of the It Got Better video series that has also featured Jane Lynch, Ian McKellen and Wanda Sykes, among others.
He offers this advice: ‘For the one kid maybe who’s searching for some sort of answer or some sort of confidence, (who’s fighting) fear of, “What are they gonna say? What are they gonna think?” You gotta let that go. That’s the thing that’s in your way.’
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Cool Curt says:
W&G is just one of those shows that regardless of what is going on in your life, you can laugh, laugh and laugh even harder. I used to think it was ‘Jack’, who did it for me and then I had to wait a minute and there was ‘Karen’ but right after that ‘Grace’ would come along and do something and I was ready to turn in the towel but ‘Will’ would come and save the day. As a Black, Gay and very ‘Feminine’ Man who is a bit on the ‘lower-side’ ( I live in DA’ HOOD) and live ‘check to check’ and I truly thought that I couldn’t relate to any character on W&G but the ‘joke was on me’ because I see so much of me in all the characters (including Rosario: who would be one of my favorites). It was light, breezy and shouldn’t be something that would help straight people see how much LGTB folks are like everyone else but it did. The creators and the writers of the show pretty much loved to throw shade and be a bit ‘over-the-top’ but it was something that was so necessary and especially since there was nothing on TV with ‘Balls That Were Brass’ and didn’t care if you liked it or watched it.
Adam Lambert is just a GOD to me (I’m playing “Ghost Town” as I type) and I’m so proud that he was on tour filling in for the Late and Great Freddie Mercury (God Rest His Soul)………..Can’t lie, Adam was someone that I didn’t see lasting in an industry that loves to ‘pigeon-hole’ everyone but he has really come into his own with ‘Brass Balls’ as well. The ‘Straightest Guy I Would Ever Meet’ would once tell me how he wanted to hang out with me and watch ‘Will and Grace’ because he thought it was such a ‘clever show’. OMGoodness how HOT was this guy, he was going to school to study ‘planets’ and just the coolest guy who always smelled like the Late and Great ‘Bob Marley’ was his best friend. Beard, perfected hair and built like he could swim ‘The English Channel’ a few times (he used to be on a local swim-team). Of course I was in love with him for some time but he always made it clear how STRAIGHT HE WAS………………